In case you’re confused about climate change, the North Pole defrosted. Several people who have been preparing for this in the last decade are bound to be very wealthy. And they have been planning for it cause you know, the climate models are wrong and the poles aren’t warming.

Thom Yorke pulls out of internet streaming not because he doesn’t make money but because new artists don’t make money. Which is probably because the tariff structure is designed so that RIAA members take 70% of the fees.

Douglas Engelbart died this week. While most media refer to him as “the man who invented the mouse” he’s actually the man who invented the computers we could have today if Microsoft didn’t manage to grind the industry to an halt for a couple of decades. His vision in 1968 included real time collaboration across the network, hypertext and graphical displays. We’re now barely getting back on track with real time collaboration.

Guess what, RIAA fuded some math and got someone to say Pandora payed him $0.00001689 per song play. But turns out he’s a songwriter that gets 7% of what the record company gets. The record company gets 44%, the songwriter gets 3% while the “rights administrator” (read, overhead) gets 5.3%. And that’s copyright math.